My son is suffering from schizophrenia since last 10 years . Please suggest permanent remedy.
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There is no permanent remedy for schizophrenia but he could be taught a lot of skills to remain functional. This is a long-term treatment and he will probably remain on medication all through his life, he must still persevere. Schizophrenia is a very complex and difficult disease to treat, even with medication. All psychotropic medicines have side-effects: that is inescapable. But I suspect that you are depending entirely on medication when in reality he needs to combine it with counseling or therapy. In therapy, he will learn a lot of coping mechanisms and techniques to remain functional and lead a close-to-normal life. He will also learn about emotions and how they can impact his condition adversely. Expressing emotions in an appropriate manner will equip him for life. Talking and sharing about the many disturbing thoughts and learning to understand himself and moderate his responses will go a long way towards normalizing and training his mind. Exercise must be a regular part of his life for various reasons. Put him on a productive and strict schedule. The idle mind is the devil's workshop for sure, and more so for a schizophrenic. Because it is a psychotic condition he needs to be made to relate to reality often by confronting his distortion of his environment. He may be given to delusions, hallucinations and disordered thinking and speech. He may be emotionally unresponsive, suffering from social withdrawal, extreme apathy, and lack of initiative and drive. If he is allowed to go internal he can strongly relate to his distortions and in fact believe in them to be true. His cooperation with the rehabilitation and medical intervention is often not as desirable as it should be. In which case someone has to monitor him constantly and enforce some compliance. He must be kept functional to get him to be aware of his surroundings and build on a steady and trusting relationship with at least one member of the community. He will be difficult to handle, and he himself will not find it easy to comply with therapeutic expectations. With someone strong and firm he could be made to follow a tight schedule and do many activities and exercises to prevent him from succumbing to this illness.
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